Bestselling Pre-ordered Horror Books for March 2010

Creeptych

Author: Everson, John
Cover Art: John Everson
Format: Limited Mini-Hardcover
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 156pp.
Pub. Date: May 15, 2010
Publisher: Delirium Books

Does your skin crawl when you see a spider on the wall or a roach on the kitchen floor? Do you find yourself itching uncontrollably after being touched by a fly or mosquito? Do you ever lie awake half the night because you felt something delicately, carefully crawling across your feet beneath the sheets?

Then this Creeptych of three bug-ridden stories is for you!

Bad Day: Paul Hughes had a really bad day. He lost his job, his wife and then after getting bit by a bug . . . his life. Compared to what happens to his neighbors after the Luna Roaches come to town, his day wasn’t so bad at all. At least he died. . . .

Eardrum Buzz: Wes couldn’t get enough of the music of Eardrum Buzz’s first disc, Misery Machine; the drone of their guitars was hypnotizing. But when he is brought into the band’s inner circle to join The Swarm, he soon has the music within him. Terrifyingly deep within him. . . .

Violet Lagoon: When a quartet of co-eds decide to reenact The Blue Lagoon on an abandoned Florida Key, they find more than just sex and sand is on the agenda. Stings turn out to play a part in their weekend as well. Lots and lots of stings. But those were just the beginning of the pain. . . .

Table of Contents:

• Bad Day
• Eardrum Buzz
• Violet Lagoon

The Woman

Author: Ketchum, Jack and Lucky McKee
Cover Artist: Caniglia
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 300pp.
Pub. Date: August 30th, 2010
Publisher: Infernal House

The Woman is the powerful story of the last survivor of a feral tribe of cannibals who have terrorized the east coast from Maine into Canada for years now.

Badly wounded in a battle with police, she takes refuge in a cave overlooking the sea.

Christopher Cleek is a slick, amoral — and unstable — country lawyer who, out hunting one day, sees her bathing in a stream. Fascinated, he follows her to her cave. Cleek has many dark secrets and to these he’ll add another.

He will capture her, lock in his fruit cellar, and tame her, civilize her. To this end he’ll enlist his long-suffering wife Belle, his teenage son and daughter Brian and Peg, and even his little girl Darlin’, to aid him.

So the question becomes, who is more savage?

The hunter or the game?

Clickers III: Dagon Rising

Author: Gonzalez, J. F. and Brian Keene
Cover Art: Dave Kendall
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 244pp.
Pub. Date: April 27, 2010
Publisher: Delirium Books

They thought it was over, but the second wave was only the beginning.

In the aftermath of the Clickers and Dark Ones’ siege and a coup against an insane President, America rebuilds. Change has come, and a better future is promised to all. But promises can be broken and there may be no future at all because deep beneath the ocean, a new terror awaits.

Dagon, god of the Dark Ones, is waking up . . . and if humanity doesn’t stop him, then mankind will face extinction.

Trapped on a South Pacific Island, the cast of Clickers and Clickers 2: The Next Wave join forces with a mysterious group of occult agents to face off against the Clickers, the Dark Ones, Dagon and an all-new threat — the deadly obsidian Clickers. The stakes have never been higher. Dagon is rising… and humanity will fall.

Clickers III: Dagon Rising — It’s more giant monster carnage and B-movie fun as only J. F. Gonzalez and Brian Keene can bring you.

Cities of Night

Author: Nutman, Philip
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 300pp.
Pub. Date: May 15th 2010
Publisher: ChiZine Publications

Short story collection by one of the greatest voices in the genre.

13 stories

12 cities

3 continents

1 voice . . .

From Atlanta to Blackpool, London to New York; from Rome to Prague to San Francisco . . . from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Birmingham, Alabama, to Washington D.C. (citadel of the dead) to Hollyweird and the city of Lost Angels . . . all are cities of night.

And the night is forever now.

The Undead Rat’s Note: My sources are conflicting about the number of stories contained in this work but after careful consideration, my best guess is that the limited edition hardcover book has 13 and the Trade paperback will have only 10. I was only able to get the titles of the horror short stories in the trade paperback. Of course, this is speculation. I could be wrong and there is only 10 core stories in both books with an extra story in the hardcover edition.

Hardcover Only Content:

• A frontispiece by Mark Maddox
• An exclusive interview with the author
• And a brand new 1,500-word short story

Table of Contents:

• Unearthly Powers: Prelude to a Nocturne
• Full Throttle
• Pavlov’s Wristwatch
• Churches of Desire
• Memories of Lydia, Leaving
• Blackpool Rock
• Ponce de Leon Avenue
• Still Life with Peckerwood
• Love Sells the Proud Heart’s Citadel to Fate
• A Mother Cries at Midnight
• Unearthly Powers: Over Mulholland
• At least one other unnamed story

Vintage Soul (The DeChance Chronicles #1)

Author: Wilson, David Niall
Art: Don Paresi
Format: Signed Limited Hardcover
Type: Horror Novel
Page Count: 262pp.
Pub. Date: May 2010
Publisher: Bad Moon Books

When a gorgeous, three hundred year old vampire is kidnapped from her lover’s top floor, high-security suite, the city’s underground community is shaken.

The abduction seems impossible, and when things seem impossible, there is only one man in the dark, underground society of San Valencez, California who can be trusted to unravel them. Donovan DeChance is a collector of ancient manuscripts and books, a practicing mage, and a private investigator.

Called in to investigate, he soon finds that there is much more to the case than a simple abduction. There will be no ransom, and if he doesn’t prevent an ancient, forbidden ritual from reaching its culmination, far more than a single vampire’s undead life will be at stake.

Donovan, his fiery, sometimes lover Amethyst, and a troop of supporting characters follow the ghostly trail of the kidnapper through a winding maze of intrigue, always a step behind, through magical battles, murders, and confrontations with a rogue band of young vampires intent on beating Donovan at his own game.

Vintage Soul is a dark, urban, supernatural mystery.

Set in a fictional underground society, a city within a city, it opens portals to the unknown darkness that surrounds us. Fast-paced, strewn with clues, investigation, and magic, this is a book sure to slake the appetites of fans of mystery and the supernatural.

Welcome to the darkness; welcome to the world of Donovan DeChance.

Vintage Soul is Book I of the DeChance Chronicles. It is also book 6 in The Eclipse line.

Jade

Author: O’Neill, Gene
Art: Steve Gilberts
Format: Signed Limited Softcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 130pp.
Pub. Date: 2010
Publisher: Bad Moon Books

Jade, with her beautiful eyes is a wasteland defective, a quasimodo.

An advocate for other Cal Wild defectives, she soon runs afoul of the mysterious and ominous Aryan Colonists.

Soon after she experiences the high of first love and the low of gruesome death, eventually spiritually soaring above the sleaze, bigotry, and violence of the San D Ruins.

Introduction by Michael McBride.

Dust of the Dead

Author: Conner, C. David
Illustrator: Tony Karnes
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 170pp.
Pub. Date: February 26, 2010
Publisher: Sideshow Press

Arizona, 1538

A relentless drought has dogged the region, driving local Native American tribes to war with their neighbors. Fearing an eminent attack from a local Apache tribe, a desperate Hopi medicine man sprinkles his warriors with dust from a mysterious meteor. He hopes it will aid them in battle.

It’s a slaughter.

The battle-hardened Apache quickly decimate the peaceful Hopi tribe and set to scavenging for food in their dwellings. But the battle is far from over. The butchered Hopi begin to rise, and the triumphant Apache soon find themselves facing a new enemy . . . a dead enemy.

Arizona, 1867

Dustin DeWind is a loner — a gunslinger used to sleeping under the stars with only his trusty steed and two pistols as company. When he approaches the tiny mining town of Saddleback, he hopes to find a bed, a bath, and a warm meal.

What he finds is death.

The local miners dug too deep, and what they unleashed has all but consumed the local population. Dustin soon finds himself holed-up in the local saloon with a handful of survivors and a trio of desperados.

With a hungry horde of reanimated corpses outside scrambling for entrance, it will take all his cunning and skills to survive.

Dust of the Dead is the first book in Sideshow’s Dark Canvas series, a new line of books with an increased emphasis on stunning horror illustrations. Dust of the Dead is offered as a signed and numbered deluxe hardcover limited to only 30 copies.

• Oversized Trade Paperback
• Over a dozen full-page illustrations
• Printed on glossy paper
• Signed by author and artist

The Thief of Broken Toys

Author: Lebbon, Tim
Format: Limited Edition Hardcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 150pp.
Pub. Date: May 15, 2010
Publisher: Chizine Publications

When a father loses his son and his wife leaves him, he cannot tear himself away from the small fishing village where the boy’s memories reside. They’re all he has left.

Thinking that his life is all but over, he takes to wandering the cliffs, carrying broken things that he always promised his son he would fix, but never did. They’re a sign of his failure, and they keep little Toby close.

And then he meets the thief of broken toys, and everything begins to change.

Only the hardcover of this edition of this title will contain the short story “Ollie’s Oswald”

Blockade Billy

Author: King, Stephen
Cover Artist: Glen Orbik
Interior Art: Alex McVey
Format: Hardcover
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: ???pp.
Pub. Date: April 21, 2010
Publisher: Cemetery Dance

Blockade Billy by Stephen King, an original, never-before-published novella that only the King of Horror could have dreamed up!

Even die-hard baseball fans don’t know the true story of William Blakely, but in just a few weeks you’ll be holding this dark tale in your own two hands so you can read it for yourself.

That’s right! This exclusive trade hardcover edition is already rolling at the printer and will be arriving at our warehouse in mid-April. This beautiful hardcover edition also features stunning cover artwork by Glen Orbik and eight gorgeous pieces of interior artwork by Alex McVey.

About the Book: Even the most die-hard baseball fans don’t know the true story of William “Blockade Billy” Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first — and only — player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game’s history.

Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse . . . and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all.

This original, never-before-published novella represents Stephen King at his very best, and this hardcover edition brings it into print for the very first time.

Horror Mall Note: YES, we WILL have the extra baseball card with our copies!

Blood Spring

Author: Williams, Erik
Artist: Jill Bauman
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Novella
Page Count: 114pp.
Pub. Date: April 2010
Publisher: Bad Moon Books

Henry just wants his garage back.

Well, he wants his wife back, too.

He lost both six months ago when Claire helped an injured deer on the side of the road. In went the deer and out went the BMW. Their marriage went on hold to save what some would consider a damn good meal.

But the day has come to return everything back to normal. The deer is healthy and Henry and Claire spend a quiet spring morning releasing it in the woods. Serenity soon turns to terror as they realize they are lost in the labyrinth of the forest with no food and hardly any water.

Food and water are the least of their worries. In these woods a long forgotten god is worshiped. Its followers believe in sacrifice, and Henry and Claire have stumbled into their dark world.